Hitler: Memoirs of a Confidant are the published memoirs written by Otto Wagener about Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP’s early history. A German major general and, for a period, Adolf Hitler's economic advisor and confidant, Wagener wrote his memoirs in 1946 while Wagener was being held by the British. His work was not published until seven years after his death, in 1978 in German. The English edition was published in 1985 by Yale University Press. His memoirs are used, to some degree, by Third Reich